Offensive, hostile and unrepentant: Geert Wilders in his own words

The far-right politician softened his rhetoric for his campaign, but has never made a secret of his anti-Islam and anti-migration stance

The victory of Geert Wilders’s far-right PVV party in the Dutch elections has taken pollsters and politicians across Europe by surprise. But Wilders is no newcomer. For years he has attempted to woo voters with his brazenly anti-Islamic policies, hostility to migration and suspicion of Brussels.

In the election campaign, he appeared to win over voters with a slightly softer version of his familiar rhetoric, telling one interviewer he could put his views on Islam “on ice” and declaring in a debate that he wanted to be “a prime minister for all Dutch people”.

The Qur’an is the Mein Kampf of a religion that aims to eliminate others … Ban that dreadful book just as Mein Kampf is banned.

Islam is not a religion; it’s an ideology, the ideology of a retarded culture.

A head rag tax, I would like to call it.

I ask you: do you want, in this city and in the Netherlands, more or fewer Moroccans?

There is an enormous gap between this fake parliament – because that is what it is, a fake parliament – and people at home.

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